Falsifications of the Worldwide flood

So apparently you are saying that God poofed the animals to Australia and New Zealand after the flood.

The amazing thing was that God was able to get them back to the exact location that they came from. Even though the water level was now 300 or 400 feet higher and the geography was changed quite a bit.

Biodiversity is based on a pre world wide flood model, not a post flood model.

Here is a photo showing the pre flood and post flood land that was above water level. Biodiversity is based on the pre flood land formation. The land that is now below water level make up the coral reefs. The coral has to have something to feed off of.

Forgive me, I asked that wrong- why would primitive bacteria only be found in the lowest strata, and why is it that all that is found in the lowest strata is primitive bacteria?

pages later; still waiting on something from AlHail about my thread...

Look, I realise that you're trying to answer everyone at once here and you may not be able to respond - but seriously, this isn't the way to debate properly. I think Frumious has already suggested that you pick one thread, bump it and start on a single topic in detail. You really should think about doing this - I formally volunteer my thread, seeing as the Flood would have had the greatest impact on geology if it occurred.

You're forgetting- even if they were constantly traveling, had they seen a body of water before? Yes. Had someone in their lineage ever had contact with a body of water that might have flooded or stormed? There's no reason to believe that someone in their recent ancestry had not. So could an exaggerated fear or story eventually be passed down as a world-wide flood story? Yes.

Every civilization has a flood story. But do they all possess stories of worldwide floods? I do not know the answer to this myself- I was just wondering if you could direct me to a source that claims such.

The water had still not yet gone down completely. So... it's a more straightforward reading that they were still afloat. Even if they weren't partially submerged- that's not the point. A flood would have sterilized the planet of all terrestrial flora. Seeds included! To assume that God supernaturally re-created plants you think He did on the third day is extra-Biblical.

Followed buffalo... which lived around sources of water. Animals, including humans require sources of water for survival. Buffalo don't just eat grass all day for their daily water intake. Indians followed buffalo as they wandered to different bodies of water. I didn't think I would have to escort you to the logical ends and implications of what I was getting at.

Wouldn't the coral die off during the flood

Actually I plan on doing that, but I still want to tie up loose ends here first.

Coral lives in shallow water that during the last ice age was land above the water level. So the coral lives off of the plant life that was there before the ocean level flooded the land. Most everything in this world seems to need something that come before it, to live off of.

I don't think every civilization posesses these stories, but a good majority.

this is a site about the flood legends, it has quite a few,but it does not have all of them obviously, but it has links to other sites about flood legends as well

I know what you were getting at, but seeing a few rivers in lakes would not really suggest that the entire earth was ever flooded.

This was regarding the Sioux. Did you read my post 122? They lived around Lake Superior until they got horses and then moved into plains and anyway there used to be gigantic floods of the Missouri river during spring thaws because of melting of snow and break up of ice dams.

The talk origins site has a far more extensive collection or flood myths and many of them are wildly different from the Genesis myth as you will see if you read them.
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html

Yes but most civilizations developed around water and as I pointed out many of them are very different from the myth the Hebrews borrowed from the epic of Gligamesh. A good many civilizations have myths about people who can turn into animals, ranging from European Werewolves to Navajo Skin walkers. I hope you stay off the moors when the moon is full.

Do you think people on plain or even in deserts never experience great floods or particularly flash floods?

Many of them, such as the Hebrew myth, were borrowed directly from the epic of Gilgamesh.

Many others were not similar until the people had contact with Christian missionaries and then began incorporating elements of the Hebrew myth into their own mythology. Howvever, if all the people on earth were descended from a single family which had witnessed this flood wouldn't you expect them all to be striking similar?

We are only talking about a few thousand years here after all. Many of the different flood myths, such as the Greek myth are very ancient so they seem to have sprung up very shortly after the alleged worldwide flood. How is that? It makes no sense but then nothing else about the flood myth makes sense either.

If all the people on earth are descended from this single family, who were saved by the God who murdered everyone else, how is it that there are hundreds of very different creation myths? Why don't all people have very similar creation myths?